the tale of triumph for a baby giraffe inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening a solemn journey to buffalo for president biden today meeting with some of the grieving families who lost loved ones in saturday s supermarket massacre the president and first lady visiting the site the president offering comfort and giving full-throated voice to the anger so many feel over the racist ideologies that drove the attack that allegedly targeted black people the president declaring white supremacy will not have the last word this evening a chill still sweeping across buffalo as the pieces of the horrific plot reveal themselves. tonight what we ve learned about the suspect s previous journey to the city, the planning, the alternate targets allegedly considered all under the nose of an unsuspecting community. emilie ikeda has new details for us tonight. evil will not win, i promise you. reporter: today president biden and the first l
of the former president s support after voters went to the polls in five states. tonight s other top headlines: the c.d.c. s summer travel warning about testing. the latest from ukraine as the u.s. embassy opens in kyiv, even as war rages on. plus, eye on america : why these women are taking a leap of faith to raise awareness about mental health issues facing female veterans. and one nation, one team, one pay: the game changer as a deal is reached to make sure the women s national soccer team is finally paid the same as the men. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting tonight from new york o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on thissed with night. we want to begin tonight with some breaking news. the president just announcing new actions to try and ease the pain of the baby formula shortage. there are two major measures, first to help with supply chain issues president biden is invoking the defense production act to get ingredients
lady also laid flowers at a memorial site before meeting with the families of the ten victims all killed while shopping and working at a grocery store simply because they were black. this hatred is what led president biden to run for president. and it s detailed in the suspect s plans. we ve learned he made multiple trips to that store as early as march. even speaking with a security guard who the shooter would later kill in this attack we are live from buffalo. joe, first to you. tell us more about the president s visit today and his message. well, this this speech, especially, was many things. it occurred after the president had private meetings with the family members of survivors of this awful shooting along with first responders and leaders from the community, but when we got to the speech, it was the joe biden we have come to expect in situations like this with his unique perspective on loss, given all the personal loss he has suffered. and somewhat of analogy to bo
and the first lady laying flowers at a memorial at the market. you see that makeshift memorial there. during his remarks, president biden blasted the surge in white supremacy that had motivated him to run for office more than three years ago and that police say radicalized a white teenager to commit that mass murder in buffalo. white prsupremacy is a poiso. it s a poison. running through our it really is. running through our body politic. it s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. reporter: more on the president s speech in a moment, but first, the latest on the investigation. online postings show the suspected gunman visited the scene of the buffalo massacre, the store behind me, three times on a single day in march and he wrote about carrying out the attack on march 15th but then he delayed several times. repo
From the air every single day when we do not know where my cousin is, when we do not know where over 200 hostages are and we dont know if any of our bombs have killed them. Here in london, thousandsjoin pro palestinian demonstrations. Similar protests take place Around The World, calling for a ceasefire. Fresh aid enters gaza, and the un tells the bbc theyve managed to re establish some contact with their teams on the ground. Welcome to the programme. Ijust want to start of some Breaking News brought to us by our correspondent paul adams. We have seen some comments on social media for the first time, seemingly, from hamas leader in the gaza strip. He has offered to release all hostages in return for the release of all hamas prisoners in israeli jails. In a statement on hamas official website, it says this, we are ready for an Immediate Exchange deal that includes the release of all prisoners in the prisoners prisons the zionist enemy in exchange for the zionist enemy in exchange for th